| Aircraft Commander | Jason Mansour |
| Co-pilot | Rebecca Waddington |
| Co-pilot | Matthew Nardi |
| Crew Cheif | Angel Negron |
| Flight Director | Rich Henning |
| Flight Director | James Carpenter |
| System Engineer | Charles Lynch |
| Data Technician | Steve Paul |
| AVAPS | Leonard Miller |
| AVAPS | Nick Underwood |
| Dropsonde | John Kaplan | HRD |
Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190918N1 mission for Jerry |
Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20190918N1 mission for Jerry |
Mission Plan :
NOAA49 will fly from Barbados around Tropical Storm Jerry to provided ground truth for the NESDIS/Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). .
Mission Summary :
| Take off | Landing
| Barbados, BWI
| 12:46 UTC
| Barbados, BWI
| 20:17 UTC
| Expendables
| 36 GPS sondes | 1 bad | ||||
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Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division September 17, 2019 3:25:42 PM Aircraft: N49RF Proposed takeoff: 18/1300Z | |||||||
| DROP LOCATION TABLE | |||||||
| # | LAT | LON | RAD/AZM | Time | |||
| deg min | deg min | nmi deg | hr:min | ||||
| 1 | 20 30 | 56 00 | 1:09 | ||||
| 2I | 20 30 | 54 43 | 1:18 | ||||
| 3I | 20 30 | 53 26 | 1:28 | ||||
| 4I | 20 30 | 52 09 | 1:38 | ||||
| 5I | 20 30 | 50 51 | 1:48 | ||||
| 6I | 20 30 | 49 34 | 1:58 | ||||
| 7I | 20 30 | 48 17 | 2:07 | ||||
| 8 | 20 30 | 47 00 | 2:18 | ||||
| 9I | 19 30 | 47 00 | 2:26 | ||||
| 10 | 18 30 | 47 00 | 2:36 | ||||
| 11I | 18 30 | 48 17 | 2:46 | ||||
| 12I | 18 30 | 49 34 | 2:56 | ||||
| 13I | 18 30 | 50 51 | 3:05 | ||||
| 14I | 18 30 | 52 09 | 3:15 | ||||
| 15I | 18 30 | 53 26 | 3:25 | ||||
| 16I | 18 30 | 54 43 | 3:35 | ||||
| 17 | 18 30 | 56 00 | 3:46 | ||||
| 18I | 17 45 | 56 00 | 3:52 | ||||
| 19 | 17 00 | 56 00 | 4:00 | ||||
| 20I | 17 00 | 54 45 | 4:09 | ||||
| 21 | 17 00 | 53 30 | 4:20 | ||||
| 22I | 16 15 | 53 30 | 4:26 | ||||
| 23 | 15 30 | 53 30 | 4:33 | ||||
| 24I | 15 30 | 54 45 | 4:43 | ||||
| 25 | 15 30 | 56 00 | 4:54 | ||||
| 26 | 14 30 | 56 00 | 5:03 | ||||
| 27 | 14 30 | 54 00 | 5:20 | ||||
| 28S | 15 27 | 52 07 | 120/270 | 5:38 | |||
| 29I | 16 20 | 51 38 | 5:47 | ||||
| 30S | 17 12 | 51 08 | 120/330 | 5:55 | |||
| 31I | 17 13 | 50 08 | 6:04 | ||||
| 32S | 17 13 | 49 07 | 120/030 | 6:12 | |||
| 33I | 16 22 | 48 38 | 6:21 | ||||
| 34S | 15 30 | 48 08 | 120/090 | 6:29 | |||
| 35S | 13 48 | 49 14 | 120/150 | 6:46 | |||
| 36S | 13 49 | 51 20 | 120/210 | 7:04 | |||
| 37S | 14 33 | 52 07 | 120/240 | 7:13 | |||
Mission Evaluation / Problems :